The foundation day of the Russian Air Defense Forces takes place on thesecond Sunday of April each year. The establishment of the air defensetroops in Russia dates back to 1914, when its first units defended thethen-capital Saint Petersburg.
The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video on its official YouTubechannel depicting all the might of its air defense forces, marking the104thanniversarysince its establishment.
The video shows modern Russian air defense systems such as the S-300 (NATOdesignation SA-10 Grumble), S-400 “Triumf” (SA-21 Growler) and Pantsir-S1(SA-22 Greyhound), as well as its service members in action, performinglaunch drills.
Radio-technical troops shown in the video are equipped with hardware suchas the “Nebo-M,” “Podlet-K1,” which can detect aircraft 600 km away andat an altitude of 100 km.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, every day some 2,000personnel monitor the country’s airspace, detecting and following themovement of up to 1,000 aircraft per day.
They undergo regular training with simulated targets, imitating the useof the foremost techniques and armaments in need of being detected andintercepted.
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